Sm,—May I offer my thanks to the Dean of St.
Paul's for his article on " Pacificism as Vocation "? How just is his observation that this danger underlying the Archbishop's dictum is no trivial matter. It is fundamental, and a major contributory cause to our present troubles: for long years now our spiritual and political leaders have temporised and spun threads of meaningless verbiage as formulae to demonstrate that all differences can be reconciled. Pacificism spread like a plague during the past twenty years because of failure to recognise it and take action against it for the demoralising thing that it is now so tragically demonstrated to be. And, as the Dean observes, it is not simply pacificism that is the issue. For forty years on all really critical issues the nation's leaders, on whom for the most part the community has lavished education, leisure, high office, have offered no better guidance. Most depressing thought of all is that this latest pacificism pronouncement- suggests that even our present and immediately prospective afflictions have not strengthened our spiritual leaders' moral fibre or quickened their powers of perception.—Yours faithfully, CLOW FORD. 5.r British Grove, Hammersmith, London, W.4.
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